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NEWS: Odd Taxi Anime Gets Film on April 1




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ab2143



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 6:15 am Reply with quote
Great news! Glad the movie will also be picking up from the last episode’s cliffhanger
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yuna49



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 9:19 am Reply with quote
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The story follows Kotogawa, an eccentric, reticent 41-year-old taxi driver


The character's name is Odokawa Hiroshi, making "Odd Taxi" a pun.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:17 am Reply with quote
So it sounds like it's basically a movie adaption of the series with an epilogue that, presumably, resolves the massive cliffhanger.
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meiam



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:04 pm Reply with quote
I assume this mean it did reasonably well enough so I'm glad, in my cynical way I though a show with this many plot threads would for sure fail. I like it when I'm wrong.

That being said I don't know if there's much value in solving the ending, it was fine as if.

There were a few point where the plot got strained, spoiler[like when crazy guy put a phone in Odokawa for no apparent reason], I'd rather those kink be iron out.
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lossthief
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:19 pm Reply with quote
meiam wrote:
There were a few point where the plot got strained, spoiler[like when crazy guy put a phone in Odokawa for no apparent reason], I'd rather those kink be iron out.


Actually that bit is resolved at the end of the show, you're just misremembering the chain of events.

spoiler[It wasn't Tanaka who planted that phone in Odokawa's cab. It was Sakura.. We're led to think Tanaka paid off Sakura to plant that phone so he could track him, and then retrieves it off screen by breaking into Odokawa's cab. But it was actually Sakura who did it, looking to eventually track down and kill Odokawa as the last potential witness to when she murdered the real Mitsuya.]
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danpmss



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:58 pm Reply with quote
Hopefully without the capoeira ex machinas in this one
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meiam



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 1:17 pm Reply with quote
lossthief wrote:
meiam wrote:
There were a few point where the plot got strained, spoiler[like when crazy guy put a phone in Odokawa for no apparent reason], I'd rather those kink be iron out.


Actually that bit is resolved at the end of the show, you're just misremembering the chain of events.

spoiler[It wasn't Tanaka who planted that phone in Odokawa's cab. It was Sakura.. We're led to think Tanaka paid off Sakura to plant that phone so he could track him, and then retrieves it off screen by breaking into Odokawa's cab. But it was actually Sakura who did it, looking to eventually track down and kill Odokawa as the last potential witness to when she murdered the real Mitsuya.]

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iirc it was Tanaka who asked her to do that, instead of, you know, just walking up to Odokawa and shooting him.]
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Thatguy3331



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:51 pm Reply with quote
Guess it's nice to see it was successful enough to get something like this. That said I'm not sure how much I feel like I need to see it since I liked the open ended nature of the last scenes. That and waiting til potentially the last 30 to 15 or so minutes of new content in a re edit that's going to condense 13 episodes into a movies run time is almost never a good idea. I'll probably just wait it out and hear what the word on the street is for this one.
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tintor2



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 4:32 pm Reply with quote
April 1 eh? Considering the parallel-like storytelling the tv series used, I have no idea how the film format would use it.
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Turro



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 8:29 pm Reply with quote
Great news, one of the best shows of the year.
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Jess0313



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 1:51 am Reply with quote
Interesting, a recap movie with a new scenario that takes place after the finale. I don't want Odokawa to die, I don't want that. I really can't wait.
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